The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is explained by an even stepdown of labor supply and demand, meaning slowing ...

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Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 in December, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, ...

During Q3 2025, Putnam Short Duration Bond Fund's Y share class returned 1.37% and underperformed its benchmark, the ICE BofA ...

Some Federal Reserve officials who supported cutting a key interest rate earlier this month could have instead backed keeping the rate unchanged, minutes released Tuesday show, underscoring the ...

Labor market weakness, uncertainty about inflation and political pressure will push the Fed to lower rates aggressively in the early part of 2026, according to Moody's Analytics economist Mark Zandi.

The Federal Reserve is likely to cut rates in 2026, but internal divisions and mixed economic data could limit the extent and pace. Even with a new Fed chair appointed by President Donald Trump, ...

• The US economy added just 50,000 jobs in December, according to the latest monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. • The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4% from a revised 4.5%. • The ...

The RBA's first meeting of the year is a month away, but that doesn't mean interest rate watchers are still on holiday. Mortgage borrowers and savers may have used the new year as an excuse to get ...